Emergence in human groups:

Chemicals assemble into cells.

Cells assemble into organs.

Organs into people and people into families and other groups.

Who tells the chemicals how to organize?

What manager assembles and directs the organs?

And yet we have bodies.

Why wouldn’t the same principles that allowed the chemicals and cells and organs to create something more than the sum of their parts also apply to people?

It is the connections among the chemicals that create cells. The connections among cells that create organs.

These connections are created according to certain rules and within certain constraints.

What are the rules and constraints that result in optimal organizations of people to get things done? To create something bigger than themselves — more than the sum of their parts?

That is the idea behind creating a collaborative chronic care network.